Photoshop for Video

Richard Harrington is a certified instructor for Adobe, Apple and Avid, and an internationally published author. Rich literally wrote the book on Photoshop for Video, and now you see, from the author himself, techniques demonstrated in this multi-episode, multi-faceted Photoshop instructional series. Enjoy!

Photoshop for Video: Video PreviewPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington explains how to output a DV video signal directly to a SD video monitor from Adobe Photoshop using a digital video converter via firewire and video preview controls. This is a very helpful tool for making adjustments to your color correction for use in broadcast video.

Photoshop for Video: Color Range CommandPlay VideoSome free tricks on how to use the color range command in Photoshop. Many people use the old method of utilizing the magic wand tool for selecting areas of color, the color range selection tool has more flexibility and control. Richard walks you through using this tool and shows some new features added in Photoshop CS4.

Photoshop for Video: Cleaning Up StoryboardsPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington works on cleaning up storyboards inside of Adobe Photoshop by using a levels adjustment, a gentle gaussian blur, a simple frame and some color. Storyboards are used all the time in film, video and broadcast to plan out scenes and give a client an idea of the plan.

Photoshop for Video: Saturated RedsPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington deals with the color red and the problems it can create because of its saturation levels and its tendancy to bleed when put onto a television screen.

Photoshop for Video: Refine Edges Part 2Play VideoIn the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington continues to use the refine edge command. The refine edge command is a great way to take an initial selection and dramatically improve it.

Photoshop for Video: Refine Edges Part 1Play VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington reveals the refined edge command, a nice workflow enhancement technique part of Adobe Photoshop CS3. You can use this command to enhance your selections which leads to better composites and better color correction.

Photoshop for Video: Straight Alpha ChannelsPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington discusses the difference between a straight alpha channel and premultiplied alpha channels. In Adobe Photoshop you need to create alpha channels to key your graphic so the image has an embedded transparency when it goes into another video editing program.

Photoshop for Video: Layer CompsPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the ability of Adobe Photoshop to use layer comps and related scripts. Layer comps is the way Photoshop allows you to have multiple looks in an individual document. When you choose a different look Photoshop remembers predefined settings and turns on or off different layers, adjustment layers, effects, layer styles and more.

Photoshop for Video: 3D Objects in Photoshop Part 2Play VideoIn the second part of this Photoshop tutorial series, Richard Harrington continues to look at using 3D objects inside Adobe Photoshop Extended CS3. Richard uses the controls, shading options and blend modes to show how to create 3D layered designs using.

Photoshop for Video: 3D Objects in Photoshop Part 1Play VideoIn the Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington takes a look at the ability of Adobe Photoshop Extended CS3 to work with 3D content. 3D objects give you great flexibility when designing your motion graphics and broadcast designs. 3D objects are static layers inside of Photoshop which makes it so you can not animate but it does provide flexibility inside of the Photoshop application.

Photoshop for Video: Making StoryboardsPlay VideoIn this Photoshop tutorial, Richard Harrington looks at a simple production technique of using storyboards for previsualization. Storyboards allow you to tell the story before you shoot a single frame of video. Richard shows you how to take storyboards to the next level by bringing in the quick sketches into Adobe Photoshop and quickly cleaning them up a bit for a more professional look.

Photoshop for Video: Making Contact SheetsPlay VideoRichard Harrington takes a look at how to create PDF presentations and contact sheets using Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. Contact sheets along with a PDF presentation allows you to show your client a bunch of images so they can make selects.